All you need to do to kill someone's belief in the Big Bang theory is tell the entirety of it. You know, a little more than just the very beginning. Once you g

All you need to do to kill someone's belief in the Big Bang theory is tell the entirety of it. You know, a little more than just the very beginning. Once you get to point out that a part of the theory says that a solar system sized ball of "fire" suddenly expanded to the size of our galaxy in <2 seconds for no reason whatsoever (ie. inflation, or should we say "the second inflation", and yes seriously, that was a pure coincidence according to the accepted-but-don't-ask theory) people start going "what ?". And then go on to explain why it's utterly impossible for space to be 3 dimensional, or for gravity to exist (the standard model argument against gravity) or for gravity to not exist (relativity, as well as obvious experience). And this is probably the right reaction. There's more, like why weren't the electrical, gravitational, magnetic, ... forces between matter and antimatter in that small ball enough to do lots of things. Create a black hole, for instance. Annihilate for instance. I mean there's answers for these questions, but I assure you, whilst they work in the equations (sort-of), they will not reduce the WTF-rate. Just because this is the best theory we have does not mean it's a particularly sensible one. I mean it is, it's just a matter of perspective. When it comes to "intuitive", I contend the actual big bang theory scores pretty damn bad.